Department of education seeks full funding

4:41 PM,
Sep. 18, 2013

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The Department of Education is requesting a budget of $2.7 billion for next year, an increase of $308.4 million.

"If we're going to be held accountable, then you need to provide adequate funding for textbooks, technology and everything else we need in the classroom," said O. Wayne Gann, chair of the state Board of Education. "If we are going to compete on a national level, we are going to have to adequately fund education. As our economy changes and more funds become available, then it becomes a question of do we have the political will to fund education."